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park · official boundary

Buckley Playground

Protected open space in the City of Boston open-space inventory. At 210 West Third Street.

Place

official layer

An official boundary, promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it. It is not amended by anything on the vernacular layer.

Filed by this archive as
park
Authority
City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department
Within
Boston
Area
2629 square meters
Boundary
held as GeoJSON at /asset/bb1c27c8fe5990bbf6b09411f382096a/buckley-playground.geojson — 903 bytes, exactly as accessioned

Map

A map of the boundary of Buckley Playground, a park in the record of Boston, Massachusetts, within Boston. The outline is an official boundary, promulgated by City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department. It encloses approximately 2629 square meters.
Rendered by the archive, served as image/svg+xml at /asset/e1937c34f23dd7d1a595f2fdbf14d58a/buckley-playground.svg — 1446 bytes, SHA-256 e1937c34f23dd7d1… · Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0
The exact coordinates are held separately as /asset/bb1c27c8fe5990bbf6b09411f382096a/buckley-playground.geojson (application/geo+json, 903 bytes, SHA-256 bb1c27c8fe5990bb…). The map is simplified for drawing; the boundary is not.

Questions this record answers

Each answer is composed only from fields this record carries, and names the attestation for what it says. A question the record cannot answer from its own attested content is not asked here. Where a boundary is described as official it was promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it and is not amended by anything on the vernacular layer; where it is described as vernacular it is held by attestation alone and amends no official boundary.

Where is Buckley Playground, and what kind of boundary does the archive hold?

Buckley Playground is recorded as a park, within Boston. The archive holds its boundary on the official layer: promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Who drew the boundary of Buckley Playground?

City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department promulgated it. A boundary with no promulgating authority is an assertion rather than a fact, and this archive files those separately, as claims.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

How large is Buckley Playground?

2629 square meters, computed from the boundary the archive holds and not quoted from elsewhere.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

What does the archive's map of Buckley Playground show?

A static map of the boundary, rendered by the archive on a server and never in a reader's browser, served as image/svg+xml at /asset/e1937c34f23dd7d1a595f2fdbf14d58a/buckley-playground.svg. The exact coordinates it was drawn from are served separately as application/geo+json at /asset/bb1c27c8fe5990bbf6b09411f382096a/buckley-playground.geojson.

Attested by: Rendered by archive-ingest 0.1.0 from the boundary this archive holds; digest e1937c34f23dd7d1a595f2fdbf14d58ab9e497026dbc918bf06ce02ba3cb1808.

What does the archive hold for Buckley Playground, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Buckley Playground from City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public domain). 4 recorded transforms stand between the retrieved bytes and this record. Attribution is due to City of Boston.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Related records

Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:entity:buckley-playground
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/place/buckley-playground
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/place/buckley-playground.json
Version
1 · last changed 2 September 2026

Provenance

Source
City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
License
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
Retrieved
2 September 2026
Source identifier
328
Attribution
City of Boston
Rights as stated
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)

Transform ladder

#OperationDescriptionTool
1fetchretrieved the dataset's GeoJSON from the City of Boston open-data portalarchive-ingest 0.1.0
2normalizethe source's own name field became the record title; no name was supplied by the archivearchive-ingest 0.1.0
3reprojectthe source is WGS 84 (EPSG:4326); geometry was set to that SRID without alteration of coordinatesarchive-ingest 0.1.0
4externalize-boundaryThe boundary left the inline page graph and became two preserved holdings: the exact coordinates at /asset/bb1c27c8fe5990bbf6b09411f382096a/buckley-playground.geojson and a static map rendered server-side at /asset/e1937c34f23dd7d1a595f2fdbf14d58a/buckley-playground.svg. The stored geometry is unchanged; the record graph now addresses it instead of carrying it.archive-ingest 0.1.0